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Bottom of the roster was Wales however, with a worryingly low 62% ranking with full digital competency.

The study also found that 27% of people can’t buy and install apps, and one in 10 aren’t competent using a search engine.

“We should be striving to be the most digitally forward nation. I think that’s going to be essential – the internet is not going to be less pronounced, it is going to get more,” says Baroness Martha Lane-Fox, who chairs the board of digital skills charity Go ON UK, which commission the study.

Lane-Fox continues: “The fact that millions of adults cannot do four things online we deem as the lowest level of entry to the internet not only holds them back, but also holds the country back.”

She adds: “I would argue that’s partly why we have the productivity challenges we do. The people who can benefit most from these things are also the most excluded.”